PostgreSQL configuration files deserve better: stop mixing override styles, omit units, delete defaults, and leave junk files everywhere.

Instagram's engineering team reveals the tech powering a billion-photo empire: PostgreSQL, Redis, and the surprising simplicity behind massive scale.

Cut through Django transaction confusion with a practical recipe: use autocommit, skip transaction middleware, and wrap database-modifying code in a custom…

PostgreSQL performance doesn't have to be your specialty.

Instagram's approach to distributing IDs across sharded PostgreSQL databases—and why getting this right matters for scaling.

Keep Bucardo's replication tables tidy with a pure-PostgreSQL purge function.

Download the slides from a 2011 OSCON tutorial on diagnosing and fixing broken Django applications.

My PGCon 2011 talk slides are now available for download, covering unconventional approaches to PostgreSQL data handling.

Two major tech conferences clash this year, and WWDC sold out in mere hours, leaving developers with an impossible choice.

Successful micro-businesses obsess over pleasing customers, not owner happiness. That's how they survive without venture capital or market dominance.